gift causa mortis

gift causa mortis
A gift of personal property made in expectation of the donor's death and upon condition that the property shall belong fully to the donee in case the donor dies as anticipated, leaving the donee surviving him, and the gift is not in the meantime revoked. 24 Am J1st Gifts § 4. All gifts are necessarily inter vivos, for a living donor and donee are indispensable to a valid donation; but when the gift is prompted by the belief of the donor that his death is impending, and is made as a provision for the donee, if death ensues, it is distinguished from the ordinary gift inter vivos, and is called donatio causa mortis. But by whatever name called, the elements necessary to a complete gift are not changed. Walsh's Appeal, 122 Pa 177, 15 A 470.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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